Word: horrors
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...crushing horror of the blasting of Coventry was that it suggested the same thing could befall other British cities. It was evidently a blow for which supreme force had been gathered, a try for a knockout before U. S. production should begin to give Britain the edge over Germany. Also it was punishment (the Germans said) for British audacity in bombing Munich last fortnight while Adolf Hitler was there, and for disturbing Russian Premier Molotov's visit with bombs upon Danzig and Berlin, and for again plastering the Krupp works at Essen. The only mystery...
TIME'S splendid tribute to the American correspondents in China, appearing in the newspapers, first attracted my attention. As a former Far Eastern correspondent who has lived under the Japanese terror, I know and appreciate the danger and the horror of living with the assassin's gun at one's back every minute of the day and night. Those correspondents who remained on the front lines of the Sino-Japanese War have long deserved recognition for their services to the American people...
...long time the air was thick with wounded feelings, with horror at such disregard of punctilious protocol. But that week Adolf Hitler, who had been sounding a harsh A for many days, was silent. It was believed that he understood such language. Up to last week the simple, tactless little statement had not yet been improved...
...shall labor all the days of my life." But most of the speech was on domestic issues, and here the old campaigner really went to town. He was sarcastic, sly, arch, tough, ironic, intimate, confidential. He ad libbed, he laughed, rolled his head sidewise, lifted his eyes in mock horror. The audience ate it up. Newsman Ted Alford, of the anti-Roosevelt Kansas City Star, said: "He's all the Barrymores rolled into...
...reeling spring of 1940 an Englishman's home was a place of horror. The Nazis were coming. Englishmen, looking at their wives and children, already saw them as corpses. Looking at their leaders, they saw the discredited appeasers, who had promised first peace, then planes and guns, finally failed to deliver either. A little while longer these ghosts of political dead men still squeaked and gibbered in the ministries before Englishmen said in Cromwell's words: "Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God-go!" Then they turned to Winston Churchill...